Accommodating Language: A Comparative Investigation of the Use of Euphemisms for Death and Dying in Obituaries in English and in German

Hänggi, Philipp; Diederich, Catherine

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55759-5_15

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“…The recording under consideration here can be heard as a tribute to the speaker's friend; and as Capone (Capone 2010) observes, praise is a key feature of sermons aimed at providing solace during Italian funerals. The fact that the speaker only alludes to her son's death is a euphemism typical of bereavement-related discourse (Hänggi & Diederich (2017), based on data from German and English). That the speaker also avoids mentioning her own severe grief is equally unsurprising, as overt emotional exposure threatens 'face' (Brown & Levinson 1987), and 'face'preserving circumspection is also an identified strategy in death-related contexts (Williams 2006).…”

Section: Dealing With Griefmentioning

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Expressivity and performance. Expressing compassion and grief with a prosodic contour in Gunwinyguan languages (northern Australia)

Ponsonnet

2018

Journal of Pragmatics

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Section: Dealing With Griefmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expressivity and performance. Expressing compassion and grief with a prosodic contour in Gunwinyguan languages (northern Australia)

Ponsonnet

2018

Journal of Pragmatics

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Economics of death and dying: a critical evaluation of environmental damages and healthcare reforms across the globe

Batool

Zaman

Khurshid

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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‘Die’ and its different situation-bound utterances in Persian

Moghaddam

Babaee

2020

P&C

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In this paper, using the tenets of Situation-Bound Utterances (SBUs) (Kecskes 2000, 2010) and referring to Pragmatic Act Theory (PAT) (Mey 2001), the verb mordan (‘to die’ in English), and its different realisations are analysed among Persian speakers. Through the analysis of authentic talk in interaction, this study aims to ponder nonstandard (situation-derived) meanings of the term mordan and its different SBUs. The primary focus of the study is on strings of linguistic events as well as the “conventions of usage” (Morgan 1978) or cultural understanding that may lead to standard and nonstandard meanings considering mordan and its different SBUs. The findings suggest that the SBUs regarding mordan, a neglected sociolinguistic context, not only is affected by its actual situational characteristics but also by prior context encoded in utterances used, which manifests culture-specific ways of thinking (Capone 2018; Wong 2010). Overall, 19 SBUs and 7 generic categories were identified with regard to the verb mordan in Persian. This paper exhibits that mordan is a versatile verb, which, when combined with situational/contextual factors, conveys different nonstandard functions that fulfil social needs. This study will also refer to linguistic features underlying SBUs that are influential in assigning various distinct meanings to the verb mordan in Persian.

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Accommodating Language: A Comparative Investigation of the Use of Euphemisms for Death and Dying in Obituaries in English and in German

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Expressivity and performance. Expressing compassion and grief with a prosodic contour in Gunwinyguan languages (northern Australia)

Expressivity and performance. Expressing compassion and grief with a prosodic contour in Gunwinyguan languages (northern Australia)

Economics of death and dying: a critical evaluation of environmental damages and healthcare reforms across the globe

‘Die’ and its different situation-bound utterances in Persian

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